You can configure SCIM by right clicking on the SCIM notification icon displayed on your taskbar and selecting SCIM Setup. You can also configure SCIM by clicking on System => More Preferences => SCIM Input Method Setup from your system menu.

How to change the language menu

Expand the IMEngine menu item on the left side of the SCIM window. Under the IMEngine list select the Global Setup option as illustrated below.

This will display the installed input method engines. Deselect those languages you do not intend to input in. Also deselect any input methods you do not wish to use for the languages you wish to input in. Please refer to Table 5.1, “Input Method Packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux” and Table 2.1, “Red Hat Enterprise Linux International Languages” both of which indicates the supported input methods and for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Configuration of input method

Some customizable input methods may be listed under IMEngine as illustrated in Figure 5.3, “SCIM IMEngine Global Setup”. Selecting an input method from the list will display the setup options available. Please note that the setup options vary from one input method to another.

Configuration of Hotkeys and general configuration

You can configure the front end setup for SCIM in the Global Setup under the FrontEnd menu item as illustrated below. Here you can configure the keyboard layout and some hotkeys. The keyboard layout configuration specifies how SCIM maps some IMEngines to your keyboard layout. Select your respective keyboard's layout from the 'Keyboard Layout' section in the window. From Figure 5.4, “SCIM FrontEnd Global Setup” below, the selected keyboard layout is 'English (US)'.

The Panel list item allows you to configure the SCIM toolbar and its behaviour. You can set when and how to show the SCIM toolbar and any candidate window. The SCIM toolbar is illustrated in Figure 5.1, “SCIM Panel” while the input language menu is illustrated in Figure 5.2, “SCIM language menu”.